The Gibson Brothers

Nashville, Tenn — Sugar Hill Records is set to release “Iron & Diamonds” with bluegrass stalwarts The Gibson Brothers on April 8, 2008. “Iron & Diamonds,” the groups fourth Sugar Hill release, showcases the brothers’ trademark harmonies. Interspersed with original songs like the title track — a snapshot of the miners’ baseball league in their upstate-NY home are carefully chosen covers like Tom Petty’s “Cabin Down Below” and others.

“Iron & Diamonds” boasts the brothers’ best vocal mix to date thanks to recording live on a single microphone, capturing the energy and closeness that concert audiences rave about. The band — Mike Barber on bass, Clayton Campbell on fiddle, and Rick Hayes on mandolin — is tighter than ever, complementing the brothers’ harmonies with adept instrumental performances.

Leigh and Eric Gibson have been performing together since encouraged in their youth by a minister in the borderlands of upstate New York, where they still reside. They received a Best Emerging Artist nod from the IBMA in 1998 and have previously recorded three albums for Sugar Hill Records — “Bona Fide,” “Long Way Back Home,” and “Red Letter Day.”

The following video is the song “I Got A Woman” from The Gibson Brothers, “Red Letter Day” record released on Sugar Hill Records.